Since their organisation in 1942 the Maquis resistance forces have made the Nazis pay a heavy toll during their occupation of France. The word Maquis...
French Maquis resistance fighters wait in ambush with their rifles leveled on the island of Corsica. The French resistance worked against the Vichy...
Members of the Maquis, the French Resistance, study the mechanism and maintenance of weapons dropped by parachute in the Haute Loire. They include a...
French woman accused of collaboration, or consorting with Germans, has her head shaved in retribution by a member of the Maquis, circa 1944.
Member of the Maquis, rural guerrillas of the French Resistance, is questioned by the French Vichy government militia, the Milice, in Haute-Savoie,...
Four members of the French underground resistance, backs to the camera to protect relatives in other parts of France, leave a small coastal town for...
French Maquis encampment, France, 1940-1944. The Maquis were bands of Resistance fighters who waged a guerrilla campaign against the Germans and...
Picture taken on Summer 1944 in France showing FFI's members posing with their weapons during the second World War.
Picture taken in France showing a soldier of one of the Maquis groups of French resistance fighters, posing with his rifle during the Second World...
World War II. French Resistance fighters sabotaging the Marseille-Paris railway in Romanèche , on August 30, 1944.
The teacher of the region distributes food tickets to the Maquis. None of the Maquis ever received a ration card, but each month each of them...
French Maquis encampment, France, 1940-1944. The Maquis were Resistance fighters who waged a guerrilla campaign against the Germans and their Vichy...
World War II. French Resistance fighters sabotaging a railway in Saône-et-Loire. August-September 1944.
Un officier de l'armée secrète inspecte ses hommes qui lui présentent les armes dans le maquis de Haute-Loire, France en 1944.
Under the very noses of the Nazi occupation, troops in France, the Maquis, have an army, a well equipped and armed Army an upward of 230,000 men and...
Free French maquis resistance fighters stand in Strasbourg after liberation from German occupation in World War Two.
The telephone operator at Boussoulet, in the Haute Loire, helps members of the Maquis or French Resistance who use a code between telephone operators...
Group of French resistance fighters pose for a picture with weapons in the courtyard of a farm in France, in an indeterminate place, during the...
Portrait Of Georges Guingouin, Old Fighter And Colonel Of Snipers And Partisans, Head Of Maquis From Haute-Vienne And Communist Mayor Of Limoges In...
Distribution of the ration cards to the Resistance fighters by a teacher. On the wall, one can notice the portrait of Marshall Philippe PETAIN. At...
World War II. Police action against the members of the French Resistance from Haute-Savoie: hostages arrested by the Militia in a village suspected...
World War II. German soldiers arrested by members of the French Resistance in a train near Montceau-les-Mines , September 1944.
Après la libération, les soldats de l'armée secrète regagnent les carsernes et défilent dans les rues d'un village de Haute-Loire en France en 1944.
Undated picture taken in France of soldiers of one of the Maquis groups of French resistance fighters, protecting with their rifles other members...
Des maquisards armés en action déboulonnent des rails pendant l'été 1944 pendant la seconde Guerre mondiale.
Graphic content / Picture taken on July 21 1944 at Vassieux-en-Vercors showing the corpses of the inhabitants of these village killed by the German...
Le président de la république Vincent Auriol inaugure le cimetière de Morette où sont enterrés de nombreux résistants du maquis des Glières en...
Monument aux morts en hommage aux maquisards tombés au pied duquel sera enterré le Maquisard Inconnu au Val d'Enfer e 29 mai 1954 à Cerdon, France.
Scéance de maquillage lors de l'entrainement des légionnaires du 2ème régiment étranger dans le maquis Corse en avril 1981, France.
Scéance de maquillage lors de l'entrainement des légionnaires du 2ème régiment étranger dans le maquis Corse en avril 1981, France.
Le commandant Roussel et le préfet Robert Fleury lors de la libération de Moulins par les maquis de l'Allier, en France en 1945.
Inspections des fusils des légionnaires du 2ème régiment étranger lors d'un entrainement dans le maquis Corse en avril 1981, France.
Scéances de tirs lors de l'entrainement des légionnaires du 2ème régiment étranger dans le maquis Corse en avril 1981, France.
